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If you enjoy dancing, that should be your form of exercise – and line dancing is extremely popular and social. Everyone has a good time because the skill is mostly in reproducing the dance routine perfectly, not in the sophistication of the dance steps. That means any one prepared to learn the routine can join the dance!

Dance is an extremely social form of exercise, and if you need the company of other people to keep that body moving, then join a dance group. Alternatives include: jazz ballet, ballroom dancing, or for more specialised dances, look up your local directory and you may find cultural and ethnic groups like Irish and Scottish dancers.

Health Farms

Health farms are worth attending if you can afford to take time out to remain in an environment designed to focus on your well-being.

What a great way to start your cellulite-loss program: check into a health farm for a week, at the end of which you will emerge with new habits, having had sufficient time to clear your mind of all the clutter. What a peaceful way to set goals! You’ll have advisers on hand, massage, sport, fitness centre, bicycles and enough time so that you can have a long quiet think about your long-term attack on cellulite.

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Develop affectionate memories to associate with your new routine. The aroma of fresh coffee may conjure up pleasant memories of good friends, so make that fresh pineapple and watermelon juice create associations too. Share your new lifestyle.

Make little changes – instead of cutting out the coffee altogether, have it black, cut the sugar for starters.

That’s not too radical! It’s an attainable goal. And if you have six cups of coffee per day, why not cut it down to two?

Remember, when it comes to losing cellulite, it’s the tenor of the life that counts, not the exceptions. So most of the time you should avoid unhealthy drinks, just as most of the time you should v make health-conscious and cellulite-conscious decisions.

Summary

• Pure water actively helps shift cellulite. Drink eight glasses a day.

• Only pure fruit and pure vegetable juices are genuine ‘food drinks’.

• Look forward to drinking pure fruit juice.

• Enjoy natural flavours.

•Be positive.

•Share delicious memories with friends and family,

•Make an effort to modify your intake of alcohol, stimulants and artificially flavoured drinks. The best way is to drink more water

• And, don’t be surprised to find that you are more alert and that you lose ‘that tired feeling’.

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Short Term

• Exercise 10-15 minutes per day.

• Also engage in passive exercise, like walking.

• Enjoy some massages.

• Halve intake of all negative substances – like alcohol.

• Double intake of all positive substances – like fruit and vegies.

• Lose weight in the first week.

Remember to make all goals achievable. Encourage yourself to perform in short bursts, making sure that you do tire yourself out – just a little bit for starters. Don’t have a complete body revolution – your body might still need its coffee, and those who get headaches will soon know if they are being too radical with their restraint. Prefer to restrain yourself gradually, being comfortable that you can – and will – achieve what you intend.

Medium Term

• Exceed 15 minutes of exercise per day.

• Start having fun – compete with your previous times and efforts.

• Put more effort into walking.

• Avoid intake of all negative substances.

• Increase intake of all healthy foods.

• Lose more weight. /

Medium term performance is most satisfying, because you really start to see spectacular results. Once you get over the muscular aches associated with starting to get fit, the body begins to perform at levels which only four weeks ago seemed impossible! Also after three – four weeks of solid effort, you start to see results. Your friends and your family might not start to notice yet, but you will certainly find yourself feeling and looking better, and beginning to wonder what you will do for clothes one size smaller.

Longer Term

• Exercise 60 minutes per day – 30 minutes weight and muscle training and 30 minutes heart and lung training.

• Continue to engage in passive exercise and don’t let your partner break the habit of giving you massage.

• Imbibe negative substances only very occasionally.

• Continue intake of healthy foods.

• And continue to lose weight.

The unfit have no idea how great it feels to be fit. This longer term program is the one you must settle into in order to retain what you have gained. It will become your lifestyle, and you should try to find ways to enjoy it. Eliminate all those things you ‘tried’ and hated in the first few weeks – maybe the paw-paw wasn’t so good, but you learned to love mangoes! And maybe the rowing machine wasn’t for you, whereas you can read or watch television on the treadmill!

By now you may have picked up a few friends along the way. Your social circle might have widened as you interact with like-minded people, and you will alter your plans in order to meet at various locations where you can encourage each other.

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Most of you are not looking for a cover-up solution.

Most of you are probably curious about the possibility of getting rid of cellulite quickly, efficiently and forever. I bet you’re even curious about your own level of commitment and self-restraint.

How’s your track record at achieving your goals?

• Are you a strong person in your place of work?

• Are you strong in the home?

• Are you strong about quitting things you’ve said you’d quit, and doing the things you’ve said, you’d do?

The strength of character shown in the past will be on a par with the strength you will show in modifying your current behavior.

Face yourself when you set your goals.

Nothing Too Dramatic!

Just before we get too serious about writing down goals, remember that it is important that you have fun along the way, because if you don’t have fun it all becomes a chore. And if something becomes a chore, it gets quickly eliminated. Ah yes, the ‘Elimination Principle’, that old rule of human behaviour which has eroded past good intentions and resolutions!

Start slow and grow into your commitment – rather than shocking both your body and your friends by sudden dramatic changes.

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